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For courses in Healthcare Ethics.
Having a balanced understanding of legal and ethical concepts and applying them to a multitude of real-life clinical and administrative situations is essential to any health professional. This text provides this balance by helping health professionals understand both the intention as well as the realities of the law. All the while, preparing them for the major ethical considerations and dilemmas they may encounter.
Written in a straightforward manner aimed at health professionals in a variety of settings, this book introduces the reader to many topics affecting health care today such as the legal system, patient/physician relationship, professional liability and malpractice prevention, confidentiality, physician's public duties, medical records, and bioethical issues. Through this introduction healthcare professionals will better understand the ethical obligations to the patient, the employer, and themselves.
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Straightforward and comprehensive, Medical Law and Ethics is the text for understanding medical law and ethical obligations in the healthcare environment. Appropriate for anyone working toward a career in the allied health industry, it provides a foundation of all of the essentials including: the legal system, the patient/physician relationship, professional liability and medical malpractice, public duties of the physician, the medical record, and ethical/bio-ethical issues.
FEATURES INCLUDE:- Legal cases throughout the text, which illustrate the history of law and common malpractice issues.
- Chapter Case Studies that highlight real-life situations to stimulate problem solving.
- Unique ― Points to Ponder gives students an opportunity to answer tough medical ethical dilemmas.
- Unique ― Med Tips scattered throughout each chapter that offer brief scenarios and quick information about law and ethics.
- Unique ― Put-It-To-Practice end-of-chapter activities that provide a clinical correlation to each chapter topic.
- Unique ― Web Hunt internet activities at the end of every chapter.
- End-of-Chapter Exercises that test comprehension with matching and multiple-choice questions.
Dr. Fremgen earned her PhD at the University of Illinois and was a student in the law program for health care professionals at Loyola Law School, Loyola University, Chicago. Dr. Fremgen has taught ethics at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana; the University of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan; and Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL. She has taught ethics and medical assisting courses to allied health students at Robert Morris College in Chicago and Ivy Tech College in South Bend, IN. Dr. Fremgen has authored five books and has been the recipient of a number of awards including; Weekly Column “Women in Business,” The Daily Southtown newspaper; Who’s Who in International Women, 1988; Who’s Who in American Nursing, 1984, 1986-1987; Outstanding Management Achievement Award, Humana, 1982. She has also been a member of the Society for Business Ethics, the International Society of Business and Society, the Academy of Management, the Midwest Business Administration Association, the Forum for Healthcare Planning, the American Society of Public Administrators, and the Illinois Public Health Association.
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- PublisherPEARSON
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0536532052
- ISBN 13 9780536532053
- BindingPaperback
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